advice plz

Pat2107

Right so hears the deal
i really want to to be a dj with 2fm but in order for this to happen i need experiance!

i want to do volentary work with I105-107 during the summer but they will only give me a week!

Should I annoy them for more or what?

MILF

Do you DJ in clubs etc or anything? Anywhere that could give you a good reference in order to get the experience needed for 2FM?

Leaderbored

Pat2107 wrote: »

Right so hears the deal
i really want to to be a dj with 2fm but in order for this to happen i need experiance!

i want to do volentary work with I105-107 during the summer but they will only give me a week!

Should I annoy them for more or what?

They're giving you a week, which in the current climate, you should grab with both hands. Asking them for more during your stint may be appropriate if it appears you're doing well, but annoying them for more before you've started will do little for your cause - As far as they're concerned, at the moment they're just doing you a favour, you may not be any good. (you probably are, but they don't know that yet.) and they may have other people lined up for the same position.

When you've got some work experience under your belt, that then becomes your calling card for further adventures in radio. You can add it to the cv that you'll be preparing to send out with your demo.

In the meantime, you should consider either a further education course on radio broadcasting (some are for doing this, some against, but as a first step, it's hard to fault it for someone with little practical experience. It shows that you have an interest in the field.) and make sure to volunteer your services to every station local to you - Community, voluntary, temporary, local & national - and don't be fussy about the location or the work offered to you. You'd be surprised how much you can learn about the business by making tea or cataloguing songs.

Best of luck.

djsupreme

Good advice from Leaderboard above. It's interesting that you want to be a dj on 2FM. Whilst you're right to aim for the top with national radio, I wouldn't get too hung up on 2FM. There are plenty of other decent stations out there with fulfilling jobs.

If you really want to work in radio, you'll work anywhere. Even a week in i105-107. I know there are many who really want to get into radio, and would jump at the opportunity you've been given.

thecountessp

It could be really helpful to swot up on sound editing software too - if you can demonstrate production skills, you'll be much more attractive to a station.
In a lot of stations you'll be responsible for doing some of your own editing, and it lets them know you're really interested in working in radio.

MarkN

Money aside, I could think of nowhere I'd rather not work more than 2FM.

I think you should learn to crawl before you walk, do the work ex, see how you get on, try to stand out from the work ex crowd because you're just another work ex when you arrive on the Monday - it's up to you whether people remember you for the right reasons.

Going in being able to try and show someone you can use editing software is probably not the worst thing in the world but how you'll get the opportunity to show your skills is another thing - you can't give a job that has to go to air to a work ex person.

Ask about spinning work or call back research, start from the bottom and people will take you more seriously.

2fivers

For someone proclaiming a burning desire to work in radio in general, and at 2FM in particular , the OP has paid little interest to the contributions to this thread, and on the evidence of posts made since, they would rather spend time dissing the employees of the station they wish to work for.

Fair enough, I suppose, if it wasn't for the fact that a considerable amount of the input to this thread has come from people established in the industry (Small industry it is, too.....) and if the OP cant be arsed to acknowledge helpful advice volunteered gratis on a message board on the way to a radio career, there's probably bugger all chance of them displaying sufficient interest in attending college or swotting up on cool edit....

Of course, everyone is entitled to hold personal opinions on broadcasters, but in this case, I think a little less "xxx should resign" and "xxx is rubbish" and a little more "Thanks for taking the time to answer my question in detail, please tell me more" on the radio board from the OP would have gone a long way towards preparing them for their work experience.